The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1928, Page 3

Prav THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928) ‘LENIN LEAGUE’ AS AID TO REACTION Sarkis, ex-Trotskyist, | Raps Opposition (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Mey 15. --- The Pravda has published an article by Zinoviev| which sharply condemns the so-called | Lenin League and declares that the formation of a second party is a hreach of Bolshevism and assistance} fs the social-democrats. aM tharply condemns the setting up of vitra-left candidates for the Reich-| stag. | Zinoviev declares that all those whc| rre not carrying out the decisions of the ninth plenary session of the Exe-| ecutive Committee of the Communist International and the April plena session of the Central Committee and cr «: FLEET FOLLOWS FASCIST PACT Work Is Secret: France the Central Control Commission of Alarmed the Communist Party of the Soviet ae Union cannot be regarded as Bolshe-; MADRID, Spain, May 15, — An- viks. |nouncement that the Spanish govern- Pravda declares that Zinoviev’s| ment has authorized the expenditure iste was Laecpaaipe Shapes to show of 600,000,000 pesetas for its naval the disintegration o: e former op-|, .,,. i ana th position of the Communist Party Behe 3 citar: piaciniee: . the Soviet Union. jagreement reached with the Ital- Sarkis, a former leader of the Trot-|ian government recently. The \cus- skyist opposition. has sent a letter to/tomary Spanish naval expenditure is the Central Control Commiss on ad-/ 164,000,000. page 2 une ah os lane While the government has refused end appealing to all other members o: <° : . the size the opposition to follow his example.|t® sive out mator mation 2s os ora Similar declarations have been re-/0f the units to be constructed, 1 ceived from many other members of | formally stated that work on the new the opposition who were expelled | vessels will be begun immediately. It from the Party for their oppositionist |i, known, however, that the details be aied lof the naval program were elaborated ‘in a seeret council presided over by ithe king. | In spite of Premier Primo de Riv- € ‘program is designed solely to afford : ¥ |sufficient protection for the Spanish ‘coastline, considerable alarm is re- ea ported to be felt in French circles jover the naval announcement. | Burns Serves 15 Months seit in Leavenworth HU NGER STALKS FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kans., May 15.—-William Burns, a political prisoner, was released yesterday from the federal penitentiary here by commutation of President Coolidge. Burns, a member of the I. W. W.,/ was convicted for his membership in that organization under the Cali- fornia criminal syndicalism law, He lera’s assertion that the new naval | Families Starve was tried in the federal court at San Francisco and became a federal pris- oner because he was arrested in the Yosemite National Park, to vhich the laws of California apply. Carried to the Supreme Court. Burns’ case was carried to the U. S. Supreme Court by the American! Civil Liberties Union and the General | Detense Committee in order to test} out the issue of whether mere mem- bership in the 1. W. W. was a erime under the California law. The Supreme Court decided the case in} May, 1927, sustaining both Burns’| conviction and the California act. The | decision was rendered at the same} time as that of Charlotte Anita Whit- | PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 12 (By mail)._-Following three days during which he and his family had not} tasted food, John Traner, on strike at the Moon Run mine of the Pitts- | burgh Coal Company, appeared in | the office of the National Miners Re- lief Committee, Friday to ask for help. Traner had trudged from Moon Run in a heavy downpour over un- paved. roads until a friendly. truck driver gave him a “lift” near the out- skirts of Pittsburgh. The destitute miner reluctantly told how he and his wife had made repeated searches in every corner of their house in hopes of finding a stray bag of beans. Traner looked ney of Oakland, Cal., convicted for her/ through his old clothing in a vain membership in the Communist Labor | attempt to find money with which to Party, buy mille for two-and-a-half-month- Served 15 Months. lold John, whose birth had prevented Burns started serving his 15) Traner from refusing to work as a months’ sentence in November, 1927.) seab in the Moon Run mine The An application for his pardon on the! family. ignorant of the strike at ground that he was imprisoned | Moon Run, had been persuaded to “solely for his economic views” was| move to the mine from Wheeling, made through the Civil Liberties|West Virgimia, by an employment Union, acting on Burns’ request. The; agent of the scab Pittsburgh Coa’ federal district attorney who tried the | Company. case recommended his release, which} Two other boys Dan, six vears old was approved by the Department of! and Hugh, aged four, sat with their Justice. | parents and their baby brothe~ facing During the time that Burns was in| starvation until] Traner, driven prison, he received $5 a month from! desnair. erme to the office of th with| National Miners Relief Committee. The miner’s eredit at the torn ero. y red when he had ron- 1 a total indebtedness of £1.47. raners are faced with eviction. } The Chamber of Commerce 4 pretiminary notice handed them by Votes More Reac?ion WASHINGTON, May 15 (FP). “fter onmleudine epseches in whi the International Labor Defense whom he was in constant communiea- j tion. te | Pittshweh Coal Company went un | heeded when the Traners found them } them, A final notice has been deliy- yeti the 16th annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber CED a+ -m2p pted resolut’ens sun- porting the aims nf the most notable carruntionicte i industry. They de-, plored ell public-ownershin measures | pa do the nowe trust, the railrovd) lobby and the eval oneretors; they de-, reureed all anti-irienction meacur they demanded that the over ret out end keen out of the merchant} marine business, and that it refrain, from oneratine nower nlovts at Vir | car Aannnnaad, Cla Shorls erd Ronlder Canran, Ther! psked also that “edyentions! | for war sunnties he slnced with @ facturing conerres:; that corps taxes he redueed, and ‘that assria. tions of imnorters to fight foreign} combines be legalized. FLOOD CONTRCL BILL SIGNED. WASHINGTON, May 15.---More than a year’atter the disastrous Mis- sissippi Valley Flood, the $325 000 000 Jones-Reid Flood Control Bill today became a law. President Coolidge _ signature today. affixed his erd to them. Other evictions have already token nlace. William Weaver, a brother Charles and the latter’s wife, wore ermmeacily forced from th Wa otiay ™ NH Milarsky. superintendent of the Moon Tun wine, had hes Mrs, Weaver and Mrs. Traner dis- * enes the strike in the town grocery store. Mrs, Traner had asked Mrs, Weav- | er to ure her malo relatives to leave | | their “seabbine tobe” and strike. The women bad not caen MII. | Half an hove later fonp anal) arsty. cmd irons policaman accarted Mrs Woaver. her huehand and her brother- in,Jaw to their home. The throe vor! eomnelled to gather theiv holonetmrs in the presence of the noliesmen whn escorted them to an interurban honnd for Pittsburgh. 3 KILLED IN Star, MADRID MAY 15.---Thre: were killed by thunder bolt: or du terrific thunder storm over Now western Spain today, were drowned, Two othe IN MINE FIELDS Evictions Continue As |“beat it.” They began to do so, but ‘e| Supplied With Water !a coal and iron policeman of the} { “| selves without/even a tent to shelter) foin tise | car | | go FIRST STREET PE = Photo at right shows view of Tsinan just before Japanese imperialist troops bombarded the city. Jap | the city. From left to right are Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian war lord; Chiang Kai-shek, who is leading the armies of the reactionary Nanking regime and Baron | Tanaka, premier of the Japanese imperialist government. New Round-the-World RIALIST a | is TROOPS MUR ; ey & Pe tikes janese troops ar e sho Glenn Frank QuitsGuild, DERED THOUSAN Points Out the Complete Disintegration of All Oppositionist Groups IINOVIEY SCORES WHERE JAPANESE IM DS ROSARIO POLICE MURDER STRIKER AS STRIKE GROWS General Strike May Tie Up Argentine City BUENOS striking st seriously i a line stri according to The police killed and two vhen police charged ing a wharf wn walking thru the streets of of picket dock striking T-HOUR DAY FOR Flight Record Sought | Attempting to set a new speed record for a trip around the world, John Henry Mears, theairice! pro-| ducer, and Charles B. D. Collyer, stunt | flyer, of Richmond, Va,, will leave | here June’ 9, to circle the globe by | airplane and ship, they announced yes- | terday. | The two hope to be back in New York, after their 20,000 mile journey, in 21 days. Mears held the former vecord for a round-the-world trip, having completely circled the earth in 35 days in 1913. This mark stood for 13 years, the Evan-Wells Expedition making the trip in 85 days in 1926. The Soviet Union will offer full as- sistance in the portion of the trip over the U. S. S. R., the flyers reported. ARREST MEXICAN FRUIT WORKERS Peaceful Meeting Brok- en by Sheriff EL CENTRO, Cal., May 15.—The persecution of the Mexican workers in the Imperial Valley cantaloupe jfields assumed serious proportions to- day when Sheriff Charles S. Gillett attacked and arrested a group of Mexicans on a trumped-up charge of disorderly conduct, Gillett entered a pool hall in West- moreland where a group of Mexie: workers had congregated for a meet- ing relative to their own labor situa- tion. Becoming unreasonably excited by their presence, he ordered them to slowly, whereupon he charged into the group. Felix Rodriguez, his wife, and two other Mexicans, R. Rogarte and Refugio Lopez, were arrested and held on technical charges of breach of peace. Thirty-six striking Mexican workers had previously been placed in jail for picketing the fields. UNEMPLOYMENTIN ENGLAND GROWINE LONDON, May 15.—Despite re- ports to the contrary unemployment in Great Britain is steadily increas- ing. According to a report made by the Ministry of Labor the number of unemployed registered with the Min- istry on April 23rd.was 1,062,500. This figure represents an increase of 47,000 over last year. Altho the number of unemployed exceeds the figures given by the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry’s re- port indicates the steady increase in unemployment. Unemployment is especially heavy in the mine fii Few Wisconsin Farms MADISON, 15.-~According to |W. R. Jones, chief agricultural en- | gineer of the University of Wiscon-} sin, there are less than one-sixth af | the farms in the state with running} water in the homes. Further, ou! of | the 190,000 farms in the 185.000 are eouipped with | cent. ly | ganized INDIA RAILWAY Iona Gale May Follow STRIKE SPREADS Textile Tie-up Now Near Complete | BOMBAY, India, May 15.¢—Belief | that the Indian railway workers are | on the verge of joining the thousands | of striking textile workers in Bombay, | Sholapur and other textile centers, is | jdriving the British authorities andj mill owners to take desperate meas- | ures to.end the huge walkout. The | old provocative tactics on the part of | the police and troops have been’ re- | doubled and in spite of the peacable | attitude of the strikers, open attacks are daily feared. Seventy-six out of eighty textile mills are shut down in Bombay alone | and the industry is virtually at a standstill in all centers as a result of | the strike. It is estimated that in Bombay more than 150,000 workers are out. The gradual spread of the strike from the Bombay district to include such a large textile center as Shola-j| pur, has thoroughly alarmed the au- | thorities and the growth of strike} sentiment among the railway workers | is leading to the fear in official cir- | eles that a new. wave of mass resist- | ance may be on the rise thruout | India, DAKOTA FARMERS DUPED INTO DEBT 90% of This Year's Crop Already Mortgaged ALAMO, N. D., May 15.—This is one of the most productive wheat sec- tions of North Dakota, a district where the farmers are thrifty and where we should expect them to be ‘vell off. Yet what do we find to be she actual case? The crop for this year, tho it is ac yet Scarcely out of the ground, is mortgaged to the extent of 90 per The bankers went out amone *he farmers very early in the season ond told them that it would look etter if they gave them (the bank- r=) a crop mortgage. This mortgage “s to secure debts. 90 per cent of he crop is thus mortgaged. Only about 10 per cent of the land around. Alamo has not yet been nortgaged. As for the other ninety yer cent, there is no such thing for he farmers as getting out of debt. Rather the debt tends to increase con- tinually, every ye: One farmer here told me that he made a loan on his land when he proved up his homestead, of $400. In four years this was inereased to $1000, four years later to. $1500, and seven years afterward to $2000. All} this is j on one-quarter section of land, which teday can be sold for only $3000. On being asked whether he} thought he would be able to pay this | debt, he answered in the negative, There are thousands of such ex-| amples in the farming west. Good land is here in abundance, gsplendig¢ crops can be raised, the farniers: ar earnest and hard-working. And the capitalist system is so well or the farmers cannot make} both ends meet. OOD print- ing of all description at a fair price, Let us estimate on your work, | | eAcTIVE PRE BASS Oo RO ee NEW YO Leléphone ORCHARD ss ED RK | MADISON, May 15.—Dr. Glenn | Frank, president of the University of | Wisconsin has resigned from the ec torial board of the Lite }eause some of its publications ha been termed ‘obscene’. Dr. Frank, in replying to a letter from C. W. Dick- inson of La Crosse, said: “The best answer that I can make to your letter i 2y that I myself have so hear nted from cer- tain of the s: ons of the Literary %3| Guild that T have resigned from ‘its}Red Perekop mills in Yaroslay, one board of directors.” Zona Gale, novelist and regent of the university, may follow Dr. Frank DEMAND RADIO MONOPOLY 0. K. Radio Independents Ask Penalty for Trusts WASHINGTON, May 15 (FP). weet Demand that the federal radio com- mission award more of the high fre- quency radio channels for trans- oceanic service ta the bigger radio concerns, “which are equipped to serve the American public,” made on behalf of the Radio Corp ‘ration of America by Manton Davis, first general counsel, at the opening of hearings before the commission. He pleaded that since there were too many applicants for the wavelengths now at the disposal of the federal au- thority, the latter should give a large part of them to a few companies, ra- ther than distribute them among many. Otherwise, he said, no com- pany could give an adequate service to the public. | The Radio Protective Assn., made | up of independent manufacturers of | radio equipment who refuse to pay | the Radio Corporation a royalty of | 7% percent on all their gross sales, | for the use of patent rights claimed | by the trust, demands that the trust | be deprived of all its wavelengths as | a penalty for violation of the anti-| trust laws, in accordance with the radio control law. | INCREASE SPANISH NAVY. MADRID, May 15.—Work will be} started immediately upon the new warcraft for the Spanish navy. The} navy’s strength will be trebled. | SPANISH AY HOP | SEYVILLE, Spain, May 15.—j Stormy weather today | Captains Iglesias and Jimenez, Span- ish aviators, from hopping off on their attempt to set a new distance record, prevented Irritable. Bladder Catarrh - Soon cleared yjup by genuine Santal Midy Effective-Harmless Sold by All Druggists Fe JGR < GREATEST Grand For was | trikebreakers are be- ‘overnment and ons here in an the Rosario dock strike LARGE USSR MILL an reaes which fear will be Short-Worling Day for |tered into 's general walkout Other Industries Ses ae General Strike Looms. pi aa ROSARIO, Argentina, May 16— (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) | 00). th the stevedores’ strike, MOSCOW, May 15.—The seven-| which is g up the entire harbor jhour day has been introduced in the | work in th city, will become gen- orty-eight hours » atrocities in which killed and two more eral during the has led to po! jone striker v Altho the seven-hour day is rapidly | injured. |being introduced in other industri Clashes between the police and the jit has made most progress in the tex- | stri e a daily occurrence now. |tile industry, where it has been in-|— : . a |troduced with a three-shift system. |for unemployed, increased production The introduction of the seven-hour|and resulted in economies of opera- y has not only shortened the work- |tion, thru the more effective utiliza- » but has provided more work tion of machinery. hy ae Miner Should Be &4 Communist By JOHN PEPPER of the largest textile centers in the Soviet Union, What the WORKERS (Communist) PARTY stands for and why every miner should join it. 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